The correlation between melancholic states and the psychopathology of eating disorders has been observed since the early days of psychoanalysis, and continues to be observed today. To update the research on the consequences of the melancholic position in the clinic of the anorexia, bulimia and obesity, we revisit the object relation metapsychology of these psychopathological states. We believe it can be of use to elucidating a possible phantasmal pattern in the symptomatic configurations of the different kinds of anorexia, bulimia and obesity.
Phantasm; melancholia; anorexia; bulimia; obesity